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Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to menacing ways — but he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall, a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined—he met the Ukrainian people. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over, instead, he met with… a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy. – President Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.But he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over.Instead he met a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined.He met the Ukrainian people. – Joe Biden	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
They’re telling me I need to change my appearance; I may look unnecessarily menacing to people. That it’s the shaved head, beard, black leather jacket, black t-shirt decorated with blood, black jeans, black Doc boots. Now I’m supposed to turn into some preppy punk, internalize any appearances of aggression, regress to high school when I underwent the same BS and all this to avoid inviting unnecessary potential hostility and confrontations. What they seem to ignore is if this is true, it doesn’t bother me one damn bit. I’m happy to kick the shit out of anyone who doesn’t like my jacket. Then again, maybe that’s the attitude they’re trying to eliminate…. – Scott C. Holstad	added by scottholstad 2 years ago
From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this? this guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous. – Brian Chin	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Yet more lies from the same disturbed individual who has been stalking and menacing Wes, his family and his friends for years, as is well known, this person tried to extort Wes for millions of dollars and, after he refused to pay her a penny, launched an unceasing campaign of harassment against my client. – Bryan Freedman	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
The Legislative Majority stands firmly behind Law enforcement, and will continue to do everything they can to deter violence against them, it's unfortunate that the County Executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders. – Chris Boyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It's unfortunate that the County Executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders. – Chris Boyle	Found on CNN 2 years ago
If you take a look at the Joker, it's an ambiguous mixture between something funny and something menacing, it's a horror clown and that's kind of, somehow cool. You can make memes of that. – Andreas Beer	Found on CNN 4 years ago
No responsible government should subsidize Iran's blood lust, as long as Iran's menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted. They will be tightened. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 4 years ago
All nations have a duty to act. No responsible government should subsidies Iran's bloodlust, as long as Iran's menacing behavior continues sanctions will not be lifted, they will be tightened. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Russia is a menacing government that does not share our interests and it does not share our values. – Donald Trump	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person. – Communications Salleh Said Keruak	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He was a client for over 20 years, and as menacing as he looked in person, when you worked with him, the heart was so warm. He was this person who everyone just loved, it's one of the rare things in the entertainment world, you don't necessarily end up with a lot of friends, but he was a friend as well as just a wonderful actor. – Phil Brock	Found on CNN 8 years ago
It's quite important for families of the victims, they know where to focus. They know there is one particular person who has been named who authorities will focus on and who will live for the rest of his life knowing that every day he will face a possible drone attack. Now that he is known, he may not be as menacing as he once was. – Magnus Ranstorp	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
The discovery of this novel compound challenges long-held scientific beliefs and holds great promise for treating an array of menacing infections. – Kim Lewis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing. – Aleister Crowley	added by anonymous 10 years ago
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – H.L. Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons. – Josh Sugarmann	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to menacing ways — but he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over. Instead, he met with a wall, a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined—he met the Ukrainian people.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Six days ago, Russia's Vladimir Putin sought to shake the very foundations of the free world, thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways. But he badly miscalculated. He thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over, instead, he met with… a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined. He met the Ukrainian people and President Zelenskyy.

– President Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Six days ago, Russia’s Vladimir Putin sought to shake the foundations of the free world thinking he could make it bend to his menacing ways.But he badly miscalculated, he thought he could roll into Ukraine and the world would roll over.Instead he met a wall of strength he never anticipated or imagined.He met the Ukrainian people.

– Joe Biden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

They’re telling me I need to change my appearance; I may look unnecessarily menacing to people. That it’s the shaved head, beard, black leather jacket, black t-shirt decorated with blood, black jeans, black Doc boots. Now I’m supposed to turn into some preppy punk, internalize any appearances of aggression, regress to high school when I underwent the same BS and all this to avoid inviting unnecessary potential hostility and confrontations. What they seem to ignore is if this is true, it doesn’t bother me one damn bit. I’m happy to kick the shit out of anyone who doesn’t like my jacket. Then again, maybe that’s the attitude they’re trying to eliminate….

– Scott C. Holstad

added by scottholstad
2 years ago

From a landlord’s perspective, from storeowner’s perspective, we’re terrified of this, his policies and what not. Armed robbery of a store is now a petty larceny? What insanity is this? this guy, his rap sheet is a mile long, he should have been behind bars. Assault? Menacing? How is he out? This is outrageous.

– Brian Chin

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Yet more lies from the same disturbed individual who has been stalking and menacing Wes, his family and his friends for years, as is well known, this person tried to extort Wes for millions of dollars and, after he refused to pay her a penny, launched an unceasing campaign of harassment against my client.

– Bryan Freedman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The Legislative Majority stands firmly behind Law enforcement, and will continue to do everything they can to deter violence against them, it's unfortunate that the County Executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders.

– Chris Boyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It's unfortunate that the County Executive has vetoed this bill that would help to deter the assault, menacing and harassment of police officers and other first responders.

– Chris Boyle

Found on CNN
2 years ago

If you take a look at the Joker, it's an ambiguous mixture between something funny and something menacing, it's a horror clown and that's kind of, somehow cool. You can make memes of that.

– Andreas Beer

Found on CNN
4 years ago

No responsible government should subsidize Iran's blood lust, as long as Iran's menacing behavior continues, sanctions will not be lifted. They will be tightened.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

All nations have a duty to act. No responsible government should subsidies Iran's bloodlust, as long as Iran's menacing behavior continues sanctions will not be lifted, they will be tightened.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Russia is a menacing government that does not share our interests and it does not share our values.

– Donald Trump

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is an offence ... to upload any comment, request, suggestion or other communication which is obscene, indecent, false, menacing or offensive in character with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass another person.

– Communications Salleh Said Keruak

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He was a client for over 20 years, and as menacing as he looked in person, when you worked with him, the heart was so warm. He was this person who everyone just loved, it's one of the rare things in the entertainment world, you don't necessarily end up with a lot of friends, but he was a friend as well as just a wonderful actor.

– Phil Brock

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It's quite important for families of the victims, they know where to focus. They know there is one particular person who has been named who authorities will focus on and who will live for the rest of his life knowing that every day he will face a possible drone attack. Now that he is known, he may not be as menacing as he once was.

– Magnus Ranstorp

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

The discovery of this novel compound challenges long-held scientific beliefs and holds great promise for treating an array of menacing infections.

– Kim Lewis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The pious pretence that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

– Aleister Crowley

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing them with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– H.L. Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

– Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Assault weapons' menacing looks, coupled with the public's confusion over fully-automatic machine guns versus semi-automatic assault weapons --anything that looks like a machine gun is assumed to be a machine gun-- can only increase the chance of public support for restrictions on these weapons.

– Josh Sugarmann

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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